Kennett High School

As a sprawling secondary school in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, Kennett High School works with 1,184 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Kennett Consolidated SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Kennett High School sits 60% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in Kennett Consolidated SD (3,822 students total), Kennett High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Kennett High School reports that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 46% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Chester County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at Kennett High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Chester County's rate of about 38%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kennett High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.7%, the actual is 46.5%, a residual of -9.2 points.

In the broader community, Chester County reports that the typical household earns roughly $127,208 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Chester County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students), of which Kennett High School is one.

The closest other public school is Mary D Lang Kdg Ctr, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kennett High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kennett High School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 63.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kennett High School has edged down 11%, going from 1,334 students in 2018 to 1,184 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 54% to 46% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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